生命损失继续高Multiple Occupancy Fires
Lessons of Past Apparently Unheeded as Holocausts Multiply in Homes for Aged, Tenements and Converted Dwellings
Editor's note: The year 1947 was the most costly in the nation’s history from the viewpoint of loss of life as well as property by fire. Apart from the Texas City and Los Angeles disasters, the greatest number of fatalities and injuries were occasioned by fires in the type of structures classed as “multiple occupancies”—housing permanent and transient tenants, i.e., hotels, tenements, homes for the aged, nursing and convalescent homes, etc.
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